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U.N. Accuses Israel of Possible War Crimes – June 26, 2015

This week on Jerusalem Dateline: U.N. accuses Israel of possible war crimes, Netanyahu fires back; plus Christians speak up in Washington about the threat to the church in Middle East; and 3,000-year-old discovery reveals life in time of King David. Read Transcript


THIS WEEK ON "JERUSALEM

DATELINE," THE U.N.

ACCUSES ISRAEL OF WAR

CRIMES, AND ISRAEL'S PRIME

MINISTER, NETANYAHU, FIRES

BACK.

> PLUS, CHRISTIANS SPEAK

UP IN WASHINGTON ABOUT THE

THREAT TO THE CHURCH IN

THE MIDDLE EAST.

> AND A 3,000-YEAR-OLD

DISCOVERYCONFIRMS WHAT

ISRAEL WAS LIKE

DURING THE TIME OF KING DAVID.

ALL THIS AND MORE ON THIS

EDITION OF "JERUSALEM

DATELINE." HELLO, AND

WELCOME TO THIS EDITION OF

"JERUSALEM DATELINE." I'M

CHRIS MITCHELL.

ISRAEL WANTS PALESTINIANS

TO GET OUT OF HARM'S WAY

DURING LAST SUMMER'S WAR

IN THE GAZA STRIP.

BUT HAMAS TOLD ITS

CIVILIANS TO STAY IN THE

PATH OF THOSE BOMBS, AND

LAUNCHED ROCKET STRIKES

AGAINST ISRAEL CIVILIANS.

BUT A U.N. REPORT NOW

ACCUSES ISRAEL OF WAR

CRIMES, BUT ISRAEL IS

REJECTING THOSE

ACCUSATIONS.

ISRAEL SAYS THE 200-PAGE

REPORT IS POLITICALLY

MOTIVATED.

AND BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

BLASTED THE COUNCIL.

THE UNITED NATIONS

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HAS A

SINGULAR OBSESSION WITH

ISRAEL.

IT HAS PASSED MORE

RESOLUTIONS AGAINST ISRAEL

THAN AGAINST SYRIA, NORTH

KOREA, COMBINED.

IN FACT, IT HAS PASSED

MORE RESOLUTIONS AGAINST

ISRAEL THAN AGAINST ALL OF

THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

COMBINED.

Reporter: LAST WEEK

SENIOR GENERALS FROM THE

U.S. RELEASED THEIR OWN

INDEPENDENT REPORT, AND

SAID ISRAEL NOT ONLY MET

INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

REGARDING THE ARMS OF

CONFLICT, BUT IN MANY

CASES SIGNIFICANTLY

EXCEEDED THOSE.

SOME ARE SAYING ISRAEL'S

STANDARD IS SO HIGH, IT

CHALLENGES OTHER WESTERN

NATIONS.

DURING THE 50-DAY

CONFLICT, THE U.N.

COMMISSION SAID 14,062

PALESTINIANS WERE KILLED,

A THIRD OF THEM CHILDREN.

IT CRITICIZED ISRAEL FOR

DISPROPORTIONATE FORCE AND

FAILING TO CHANGE ITS

TACTICS DURING THE WAR

WHEN CIVILIANS WERE

KILLED, EVEN THOUGH ISRAEL

WARNED CIVILIANS IN

SEVERAL WAYS.

IT IS HARD FOR ME TO

SEE HOW ISRAEL COULD HAVE

DONE BETTER.

WHAT COULD IT HAVE DONE

MORE THAN WARN THE PEOPLE

THE WAY THEY DID?

WHAT COULD IT HAVE DONE

MORE THAN MAKE PHONE CALLS

INTO INDIVIDUALS INSIDE

BUILDINGS ABOUT TO BE

ATTACKED?

Reporter: COLONEL

ADVOCATE DAVID BENJAMIN IS

THE FORMER I.D.F. LEGAL

ADVISOR FOR THE GAZA

STRIP.

AND WHILE HAMAS LAUNCHED

MORE THAN 14,000 ROCKETS

AND 1700 MORTERS AT

ISRAEL, IT STOPPED SHORT

OF BLAMING HAMAS FOR

STARTING THE WAR.

IT KIND OF PUTS THE

BLOCKADE AGAINST GAZA AS

BEING MAYBE THE ROOT

CAUSE.

IT DOESN'T SUGGEST THAT

THE BLOCKADE IS THERE

BECAUSE OF HAMAS

TERRORISM.

Reporter: IRONICALLY,

HAMAS REJECTED THE

FINDINGS OF THE REPORT

BECAUSE OF ITS COMPARISON

BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS.

ITH IT IS A FATAL

MISTAKE, AND A BIG PROBLEM

IN THIS REPORT IS ALL OF

THE TIME THEY TRIED TO

MAKE COMPARISONS.

Reporter: MARY DAVIS,

CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION,

SAYS THEY DON'T HAVE THE

EVIDENCE TO PROVE WAR

CRIMES WERE COMMITTED.

IT IS A GREAT SOURCE OF

REGRET WE COULD NOT TRAVEL

TO ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED

TERRITORY TO MEET THEM

FACE TO FACE.

MOST OF THE DECISIONS

TO ATTACK CERTAIN

BUILDINGS OR TARGETS ARE

BASED ON SECRET

INTELLIGENCE.

AND YOU INCUMBEN CAN'T HAVE THE

ENEMY KNOWING ABOUT THE

SECRET INTELLIGENCE.

Chris: BENJAMIN SAID

IT IS A GREAT PROPAGANDA

TOOL FOR THEM EVEN IF IT

DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH

SUBSTANCE.

IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN A

YEAR SINCE ISIS RAMPAGED

THROUGH IRAQ AND SYRIA.

AND THEY LEFT BEHIND A

SELF-PROCLAIMED CALIPHATE.

THOSE WHO LIVED UNDER ISIS

TELL GREWSOME STORIES

ABOUT HOW AND THEIR LOVED

ONES WERE TREATED.

George: THE WHOLE

WORLD KNOWS OF ISIS, FROM

INNOCENT WESTERNERS

BEHEADED, TO THOUSANDS OF

CHRISTIANS AND OTHER

MINORITIES FORCED TO FLEE

OR DIE.

FOR THOSE LIVING IN OR

NEAR ISIS-CONTROLLED

TERRITORY, THE NIGHTMARE

REMAINS.

SHAKESHEIKH IBRAHIM HAS

SOMETHING TO REMEMBER HIS

WIFE BUT A DEATH

CERTIFCATE.

HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT ISIS

DID WITH HER BODY.

THIS IS A DEATH

CERTIFCATE FROM THE JUDGE.

IT SHOWS THEY ASSASSINATED

HER.

HER.

George: THE SHEIKH'S

TOWN WAS LIBERATED BY THE

KURDS THIS YEAR, BUT SALIM

AKMED, ANOTHER RESIDENT,

AND FORMER ARMY MEMBER,

STILL CARRIES HIS I.D.

CARD.

IT MAY HAVE SAVED HIS

LIFE.

WHEN YOU ARRIVE AT THE

CHECK-POINT, THEY ASK ARE

YOU A POLICE OR AN ARMY

MEMBER, AND I SAID YES.

AND THEY ASKED FOR THE

CARD.

IF YOU HANDED IN THE

WEAPON, YOU COULD GO.

IF NOT, THEY TOLD YOU TO

BRING YOUR WEAPON OR THEY

PUT YOU IN JAIL.

George: ISIS REQUIRES

ALL POLICEMEN, SOLDIERS

AND OTHER GOVERNMENT

EMPLOYEES TO HAVE A

REPENTANCE CARD.

EVEN ORDINARY CITIZENS

HAVE TO HAVE ONE, LIKE

FORMER ENGLISH TEACHERS

BECAUSE THEY ONCE TAUGHT,

QUOTE,"A FORBIDDEN

LANGUAGE."

FOR THE MILLIONS TRAPPED

UNDER THE ISLAMIC STATE'S

REIGN OF TERROR, ANYONE

WHO DOESN'T FOLLOW SHAR'IA

LAW IS AT RISK.

THE METHODS OF ISIS

CONTROL RANGE FROM

HARASSMENT TO WHIPPING TO

MIND-BOGGLING EVIL.

THEY SENT MOHAMMED A C.D.

SHOWING HIS BROTHER'S

BEHEADING.

HIS BROTHER IS THE ONE

KNEELING ON THE LEFT.

I WANT TO CROSS THE

FRONT LINE SO I CAN BLOW

MYSELF UP IN FRONT OF

ISIS.

ALTHOUGH I MIGHT DIE.

BUT THAT DOESN'T SATISFY

ME.

SO IF I CHOP THEM UP AND

EAT THEIR BLOOD, IT WON'T

TAKE AWAY MY PAIN.

George: AND ISIS

DROPS LEAFLETS, TELLING

WOMEN HOW TO DRESS AND

ISSUED PERMISSION FORMS TO

TRAVEL.

THESE GUARDS PUNISHED FOR

VICES, SUCH AS SMOKING, AS

WELL.

FOR SMOKERS, THEY PUT A

PIECE OF IRON BETWEEN YOUR

FINGERS AND THEY BREAK

YOUR FINGERS.

AND THEY FINE HIM 5,000 TO

10,000 DENAR FOR EACH

CIGARETTE.

George: SALIM AKMED

STILL KEEPS HIS REPENTANCE

CARD IN CASE ISIS RETURNS.

NOW WE'RE AFRAID

BECAUSE WE'RE VERY CLOSE

TO THEIR ATTACK LINE.

IT IS ONLY A HALF

KILOMETRE EWAY FRO AWAY FROM HERE.

IF THEY GO AWAY, I CAN'T

THROW THE CARD AWAY

BECAUSE I DON'T RECOGNIZE

THIS PAPER.

Chris: IN A RELATED

STORY, SOME SAY AMERICA

AND THE WORLD MUST SPEAK

THE WORLD AND ACT.

CHRISTIANS FROM THE MIDDLE

EAST FACE ANNIHILATION AND

URGENTLY NEED HELP BEFORE

IT IS TOO LATE.

GARY LANE HAS THAT STORY

FROM WASHINGTON.

Reporter: FROM EGYPT

TO SYRIA AND IRAQ, ANCIENT

CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES ARE

UNDER THREAT OF

EXTINCTION.

CHRISTIANS AND OTHER

MINORITIES ARE IN DEEP

DANGER, AND WE DARE NOT BE

SILENT.

THE TIME TO SPEAK IS NOW.

Reporter: KATRINA

SWEAT, CHAIRMAN OF THE

U.S. COMMISSION ON

INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS

FREEDOM DELIVERED THAT

MESSAGE AT THE SIX AND

ANNUAL COPTIC SOLIDARITY

CONFERENCE ON PERSECUTION

IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

WHY SHOULD AMERICANS ARE

OTHER WESTERNERS GET

INVOLVED?

SHE SAYS RELIGIOUS

EXTREMISM CROSSES OCEANS

AND CON NENTS.

CONTINENTS.

WHEN COPTIC CHRISTIANS

IN EGYPT ARE ATTACKED BY

EXTREMISTS FOR SUPPOSEDLY

VIOLATING SUCH LAWS AND WE

ARE SILENT, WE SHOULD NOT

BE SURPRISE WHEN ATTACKS

COMMENCE IN THE TREATS OF

PARIS OR ELSEWHERE.

AMERICA IS IN A PLACE

TO STOP THE PERSECUTION OF

CHRISTIANS IN NUMBERS

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN IN THE

WORLD.

GOD HAS ALLOWED US TO BE

AT THAT PLACE.

Reporter: BUT BEFORE

AMERICA AND OTHER NATIONS

CAN RESPOND EFFECTIVELY,

THEY MUST FACE THE TRUTH

ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING

AND WHY.

MIDDLE EAST ANALYST

RAYMOND IBRAHIM BLAMES THE

MEDIA.

WE KNOW ABOUT THIS ISIS

THING BECAUSE ISIS WANTS

YOU TO KNOW.

AND THE MEDIA, IF

ANYTHING, HAS RESPONDED BY

GIVING US A PLETHORA OF

EDITORIALS, TRYING TO

CONVINCE US THAT WHAT ISIS

IS DOING IS NOT ISLAMIC.

Reporter: AND IBRAHIM

SAYS AMERICAN LEADERS MUST

SPEAK THE TRUTH ABOUT THE

ATROCITIES, LIKE THE

BEHEADING OF COPTIC

CHRISTIANS IN LIBYA.

ACCORDING TO THE WHITE

HOUSE, IT WAS 21 EGYPTIAN

WHO WERE RANDOMLY KILLED,

NOT BECAUSE OF THEIR

RELIGION AND SO FAR.

Reporter: THIS RABBI

IS URGENTLY CONCERNED

ABOUT IRAQ AND SYRIAN

CHRISTIANS.

THEIR NUMBERS HAVE

DWINDLED TO A FRACTION OF

WHAT THEY WERE JUST 20

YEARS AGO.

IF WE'RE GOING TO

PRESERVE THOSE

COMMUNITIES, WE KNOW WHAT

NEEDS TO BE DONE.

FIRST, UNTIL ISIL IS

PUSHED OUT, THOUGH

DISPLACED COMMUNITIES NEED

TO BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH A

QUALITY OF LIFE.

Reporter: AND THAT

MEANS PROVIDING SECURITY

AND STABILITY FOR THEM.

ALONG WITH BETTER HEALTH

CARE AND SCHOOLS FOR THEIR

CHILDREN.

WE CANNOT STAND BY AND

WATCH THIS.

WE HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION

TO ACT IN DEFENSE OF OUR

BROTHERS AND SISTERS

ABROAD.

Reporter: CHRISTIAN

ACTIVISTS HERE IN

WASHINGTON ARE ONCE AGAIN

SPEAKING LOUDLY, REMINDING

THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS

THAT SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE

DONE QUICKLY TO PROTECT

THESE ANCIENT COMMUNITIES

FROM ANNIHILATION.

GARY LANE, CBN NEWS,

CAPITOL HILL.

Chris: COMING UP,

WHAT DO MUSLIMS BELIEVE

ABOUT THE END TIMES?

AND WHO IS THIS ISLAMIC

MESSIAHCALLED THE MAHDI?

WE'LL HAVE ANSWERS WHEN WE

COME BACK.

Chris: WELCOME BACK.

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE

MUSLIM MESSIAH?

HE IS CALLED THE MAHDI,

AND MANY MUSLIMS BELIEVE

HE IS COMING TO SAVE THE

WORLD AT THE END OFTIME.

OTHERS BELIEVE HE HAS COME

TO DESTROY IT.

MILLIONS OF MUSLIMS

FROM AROUND THEWORLD ARE

WAITING FOR AN ISLAMIC

MESSIAH, KNOWN AS THE

MAHDI.

VARIOUS BRANCHES OF ISLAM

HAVE DIFFERING BELIEFS.

SHI'A MUSLIMS BELIEVE

THEIR SAVIOR WAS ONCE

ALIVE BUT DISAPPEARED AND

WILL EMERGE A SECOND TIME

FROM THIS WELL, LOCATED IN

A SMALL VILLAGE IN IRAN.

SUNNI MUSLIMS ALSO BELIEVE

IN A SAVIOR, BUT THEY

BELIEVE THE MAHDI IS

MUHAMMAD'S SUCCESSOR AND

HAS YET TO COME TO EARTH.

JOEL RICHARDSON HAS

WRITTEN SEVERAL BOOKS ON

HOW ISLAMIC BELIEFS RELATE

TO BIBLICAL PROPHECY.

AND HIS BOOK SUGGESTS THAT

THIN HIS BOOK, "MIDEAST

BEAST," HE ARGUES THE

ANTI-CHRIST WILL COME FROM

THE MIDDLE EAST, AND NOT

FROM EUROPE.

BIBLE TEACHERS HAVE

TRADITIONALLY TAUGHT THAT

THE ANTI-CHRIST WOULD COME

FROM EUROPE.

WHY IS THAT?

REALLY, IT HAS BEEN

BECAUSE OF A

MISINTERPRETTATIONS OF A

FEW KEY TEXTS, DANIEL 2

AND 9: 24.

26.

AND IN MY BOOK I WALK

THROUGH THE PASSAGESAND

SHOW THEY'RE FROM THE

MIDDLE EAST AND NOT

EUROPE.

George: WHAT EVIDENCE

DO YOU HAVE THAT THE

ANTI-CHRIST IS GOING TO

RISE UP FROM THE MIDDLE

EAST?

WE, OF COURSE, THE

SCRIPTURE, THAT IS OUR

MOST IMPORTANT

DETERMINANT.

AND YOU HAVE REFERENCE TO

THE GEOGRAPHY HE IS GOING

TO COME FROM.

AND HE DENIES THE FATHER

AND THE SON.

YOU HAVE THE

ANTI-SEMITISM, THE

ANTI-ZIONISM, AS WELL AS

IN THE QURAN YOU HAVE

THESE VERY ANTI-CHRISTIC

STATEMENTS.

EVERY ESSENTIAL DOCTRINE

THAT YOU AND I BELIEVE IS

CHRISTIANS, THE ATTONING

WORK OF CHRIST ON THE

CROSS, THE TRINITY --

THESE ARE REFERRED TO AS

BLASPHEMY.

THE QURAN ACTUALLY

CANONIZES THIS

ANTI-CHRIST,

ANTI-CHRISTIAN RHETORIC.

George: YOU SAY IN

YOUR BOOK THERE IS A

SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE

ANTI-CHRIST AND THE MAHDI.

THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE?

IN MANY WAYS, WHAT

THEY'RE LOOKING FOR IN

THEIR MESSIAH FIGURE BEARS

MANY STRIKING RESEMBLANCES

TO THE ICHRIST.

ANTI-CHRIST.

WE CAN SEE THE SATANIC

HAND IN THE HISTORY AND

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE

ISLAMIC PROPHECIES,

LEADING MUSLIMS TO BE SET

UP IN SO MANY WAYS.

THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO BE

CRYING OUT FOR MUSLIMS.

George: MUSLIMS

FEVERISHLY BELIEVE -- BOTH

THE SUNNI AND OTHER SECTS,

BELIEVE THERE WILL BE A

MESSIAH THAT WILL COME.

YES.

THEY BELIEVE THEY'RE IN

THE END TIMES.

THEY BELIEVE THEIR

PROPHECIES ARE BEING

FULFILLED.

PASSION AND THE GO FOR

BROKE ATTITUDE THAT IS

SPURRING ACROSS MUCH OF

THE ISLAMIC WORLD.

George: IT IS

INTERESTING BECAUSE WHEN

YOU WATCH SOME OF THE ISIS

BEHEADINGS AND YOU LISTEN

TO THE ARABIC SAYINGS,

THEY INVOKE THE RETURN OF

THE MAHDI, AND THAT

BEHEADING THE CHRISTIANS

AND IN FED DILL INFIDELS IS FULFILLING

OF THE PROPHECY.

I SAW THE SOULS OF

THOSE BEHEADED.

WHEN YOU SAW THE 21

COPTICS, YOU COULDN'T HELP

BUT SEE SCRIPTURE BEING

FULFILLED RIGHT BEFORE US.

George: YOU ARE, IN

ADDITION TO ALERTING THE

FOLKS OF THE TIMES WE'RE

LIVING IN, YOU SAY IT IS

ALSO IMPORTANT TO SHARE

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

WITH THOSE TRAPPED IN THIS

RELIGION?

WE NEED TO LOOK AT THIS

INFORMATION TO SPUR US ON

TO URGENCY TO PROCLAIM THE

GOSPEL.

GOD LEVELS MUSLIMS.

AND HE HAS PROVEN IT BY

APPEARING TO MUSLIMS

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

HE IS APPEARING TO THEM

THROUGH DREAMS AND

VISIONS.

BUT IT IS NOT JUST THROUGH

THE DREAMS AND VISIONS.

IT IS WHEN CHRISTIANS HAVE

THE SIMPLE COURAGE TO

SHARE THE GOSPEL.

IF WE'RE GOING TO FULFILL

THE GREAT COMMISSION -- IF

ISIS CAN RAISE UP 40,000

YOUNG PEOPLE FROM ALL

AROUND THE WESTERN WORLD

TO JOIN ISIS, WE, AS THE

CHURCH, OUGHT TO BE ABLE

TO SEND THOUSANDS TO THE

MIDDLE EAST TO BE

AMBASSADORS OF CHRIST.

WE'RE BEHIND THE CURB

RIGHT NOW.

George: IS THIS A

GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR

CHRISTIANS, LOOKING FOR A

COMMONALITY TO SAY,

LISTEN, WE HAVE A SIMILAR

STORY.

WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS

CHRIST IS GOING TO RETURN.

AND USE THAT AS A CULTURAL

AND A RELIGIOUS HOOK TO

SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH

MUSLIMS?

YEAH, IT IS.

IT IS A GOOD

CONVERSATIONAL GATEWAY,

ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE

FAMILIAR WITH THE

MATERIAL.

I THINK IT IS ALWAYS BEST

TO BRING IT BACK TO JESUS.

WE CAN TALK ABOUT THEIR

END TIMES, BUT IF WE BRING

IT BACK TO END TIMES, YOU

BELIEVE JESUS IS

RETURNING, AND WE BELIEVE

JESUS IS RETURNING.

AND BRING IT BACK TO THE

BIBLICAL STORY AND REALLY

COMMUNICATE THAT GOD LOVES

THEM.

AND ONE OF THE BEST WAYS

WITH CAWE CAN DO THAT IS IF WE

LOVE THEM OURSELVES.

George: JOEL

RICHARDSON, THANK YOU FOR

JOINING US.

MY PLEASURE.

Chris: UP NEXT, WE

TALK WITH THE SON OF AN

INFAMOUS NAZI.

HIS FATHER USED TO KILL

JEWS: NOW HIS SON LOVES

THEM.

Cliff: WELCOME BACK.

VERNA OLDER LIVED IN THE

SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST.

HIS FATHER TRAINED

SOLDIERS TO KILL JEWS.

NOW THROUGH A REMARKABLE

TRANSFORMATION, OLDER NOW

LOVES THE JEWISH PEOPLE.

TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT

YOUR BACKGROUND?

MY FAMILY WERE

CATHOLICS, AND WHEN HITLER

CAME TO POWER, WITH ALL OF

HIS LIES AND EMPTY

PROMISES, THEY JOINED HIS

FORCE.

AND MY FATHER JOINED AN

ELITE UNIT AT THAT TIME,

AND HE WAS TRAINED AS A

SPECIALIST, TO TRAIN IN

THE ART -- THE TERRIBLE

ART OF KILLING THE JEWS.

Reporter: WHAT WAS IT

LIKE WHEN YOU ACTUALLY MET

YOUR FATHER?

WHEN HIS PERSON CAME

HOME, HE WASN'T VERY TALL,

BUT IT SEEMED LIKE A HUGE

BLAD SHADOW THAT CAME INTO

OUR HOME THAT NEVER LEFT

ME FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.

Chris: SO FOR MANY

YEARS YOU WERE HAUNTED BY

NIGHTMARES, WEREN'T YOU?

YES.

IT SEEMED LIKE THOSE

DEMONIC FORCES SEEMED TO

JUMP ON THIS LITTLE CHILD

WHO WAS DEFENSELESS.

HE HAD NO PROTECTION OF

GOD.

SO I GREW UP IN THIS WAY

OUT OF CONTROL INDIVIDUAL,

WHO'S LIFE AND SOUL WAS

RAGING THAT I COULD NOT

CONTROL.

Chris: HOW DID YOU

GET INTRODUCED TO GOD?

I SIMPLY CRIED OUT TO

GOD, WHOM I DIDN'T KNOW.

I DIDN'T THOUGH WHERE HE

WAS.

AND I SAID, GOD, I DON'T

WANT TO DIE.

I WANT TO LIVE.

GOD ANSWERED AND SENT

HELP.

AND HE SENT ME A GERMAN

EVANGELIST WHO CAME TO ME

AND SAID, VERNA, GOD LOVES

YOU SO MUCH, AND HE GAVE

JESUS TO DIE FOR YOU.

IF YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS,

HE WILL FORGIVE YOUR SIN.

AND I YIELDED TO GOD AND

SAID TO MYSELF, IF THAT

DOESN'T WORK, I'VE GOT

NOTHING TO LOSE.

Chris: WHAT HAPPENED

WHEN YOU FOUND OUT THAT

JESUS WAS JEWISH?

I BEGUN TO REALIZE I

BELIEVE IN THE GOD OF

ISRAEL WHO SENT HIS SON,

USHUAIA, TO BECOME THE

MESSIAH, BORN OF A JEWISH

WOMAN, WHO'S NAME WAS

MARIAM.

SOMETHING AMAZING

HAPPENED.

I DISCOVERED A LOW FOR THE

JEWISH PEOPLE.

IT IS NOT BECAUSE I COME

FROM A NAZI BACKGROUND AND

I'M GLLT.

IGUILTY.

IT IS NOT LIKE THAT.

Chris: HOW DO YOU THE

JEWISH PEOPLE REACT TO YOU

KNOW?

THEY CHANGED.

ALTHOUGH THEY CONSIDERED

ME AN ENEMY BEFORE, IN

MINUTES I BECOME THEIR

BEST FRIEND.

Chris: DO YOU SEE

ISRAEL SEEING A SIMILAR

THREAT TO WHAT THEY FACED

IN THE 1930s AND '40s.

NO.

IT IS FAR GREATER.

THE THREAT IN THE '30s

AND '40s WAS CONTAINED

JUST IN THE

GERMANY-SPEAKING WORLD,

LARGELY LIMITED TO EUROPE.

NOW THE THREAT THAT ISRAEL

FACES IS WORLDWIDE.

BUT THERE IS ONE BIG

DIFFERENCE: THERE ARE MORE

CHRISTIANS STANDING WITH

ISRAEL AND PRAYING FOR

ISRAEL THAN EVER IN THE

HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

Chris: SO WHAT DO YOU

LIKE TO SHARE WITH PEOPLE

NOW?

IT IS TIME FOR THE

CHRISTIANS TO BECOME TRUE

FRIENDS OF ISRAEL.

IT IS TIME TO REALIZE THAT

THE PAST HAS BEEN AGAINST

US, BUT IT IS TIME TO

CREATE A NEW FUTURE.

THAT WE LEAVE THE PAST

BEHIND.

WE CLOSE THE DOOR TO THE

TRAUMAS OF THAT WITHOUT

FORGETTING WHAT HAPPENED,

AND TO ACTUALLY STAND UP

AND SAY, I AM A FRIEND OF

ISRAEL.

I STAND WITH ISRAEL.

I WILL SPEAK FOR ISRAEL.

AND I WILL NOT DO THAT,

WHICH MY FOREFATHERS HAVE

DONE BEFORE.

Chris: COMING UP, A

RARE AND REMARKABLE

DISCOVERY FROM THE VALLEY

OF ELA.

IT IS FROM THE TIME IN

ISRAEL, 3,000 YEARS AGO.

Chris: WELCOME BACK.

WHEN MANY PEOPLE IN THE

WORLD QUESTION THE

JEWISH'S PEOPLE'S

ATTACHMENT TO THE WORLD OF

ISRAEL, ISRAELI PRIME

MINISTER BENJAMIN

NETANYAHU WEIGHS IN ON AN

EXTRAORDINARY

ARCHEOLOGICAL FIND FROM

THE TIME OF KING DAVID.

ARCHEOLOGISTS SHOWED

NETANYAHU THE RARE

3,000-YEAR-OLD

INSUBCRIPTION AT HIS

OFFICE IN JERUSALEM.

THEY TOLD HIM THAT UNTIL

FIVE YEARS AGO, THERE WERE

NO KNOWN INSCRIPTIONS FROM

THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH.

TODAY WE HAVE FOUR

INSCRIPTIONS.

ONE FROM JERUSALEM, ONE

FROM BETHEMISH, AND TO

FROTWOFROM BETHA.

Chris: IT IS A PLACE

WHERE THE BIBLE SAID A

YOUNG DAVID FOUGHT

GOLIATH.

CONSERVETORS PUT THE MORE

THAN 100 PIECES OF THE POT

TOGETHER.

THE INSCRIPTION READ

THE STATE OF ABAL, SON THE

ISHMAL.

Reporter: THIS

PARTICULAR FIND CONTAINED

A FASCINATING NAME.

THE NAME IS UNIQUE.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.

BUT THE SHABAL IS A VERY

WELL-KNOWN NAME.

IT APPEARED IN THE BIBLE A

FEW TIMES.

BUT ALL OF THE TIME IT IS

MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE IS

FROM THE TIME OF KING

DAVID.

THERE IS THE FAMOUS

ISHBAL, SON OF THE KING.

HIS HEAD WAS CUT OFF AND

BROUGHT TO DAVID TO

HEBRON.

THIS IS NOT THE GUY.

WE HAVE ANOTHER ISHBAL.

ISHBAL MEANS MAN OF

VEIL.

GAR FINGARFINKEL SAID ONE OF

SAUL'S SON'S NAME WAS

CHANGED.

HE TOLD CBN NEWS THAT ALL

ISHBALS IN THE BIBLE AND

ARCHEOLOGY ARE FROM THE

TIME OF KING DAVID.

THIS IS FASCINATING

THAT YOU SEE A CORRELATION

BETWEEN THE BIBLICAL TEXT

AND ARCHEOLOGICAL TEXT.

Reporter: FOR YEARS

EXPERTS SAID THERE WAS NO

PROOF THAT KING DAVID

EXISTS, BUT THIS WORK

PROVES THEY WERE WRONG.

IT TRULY IS A REMARKABLE

DISCOVERY.

IT IS LIKE YOU CAN HEAR

THE ECHOES FROM THREE

MILLENNIUM AGO.

YOU CAN FOLLOW US THROUGH

THE WEEK FOR UPDATES ON

Facebook OR TWITTER.

I'M

CHRIS MITCHELL.

WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME

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